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CCS Bard’s Tom Eccles and Luma Foundation’s Maja Hoffmann pen the introduction for the book accompanying the exhibition presented at the Parc des Ateliers, Luma Arles and at CCS Bard.

Josephine Sacabo’s solo exhibit in New Orleans, Tagged, responds to the everyday misogyny of graffiti in the streets.

Award-winning actress and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini talks about her new theatrical lecture on the science of animal minds. She will perform "Link Link Circus" on November 17 at 7:30 p.m.

TŌN's free concert series will offer two performances led by associate conductor James Bagwell and one led by resident conductor Zachary Schwartzman during the holiday season.

As part of BGC's Agents of Faith exhibition, Adrián Viajero Román built an altar for those who have died crossing the Mexican border or were victims of Hurricane Maria.

Joan Tower, Asher B. Edelman Professor in the Arts, talks with the New York Times about her more than 50-year career as a composer and educator, and the milestone of turning 80 this fall.

Matalon's hire fulfills the museum’s commitment to furthering community outreach through exhibitions and maintaining a feminist perspective in its curatorial practice.

When the composer Joan Tower went to Bennington College to study music, her teachers told her she needed to compose something.

“So I wrote a piece,” she recalled recently, laughing, “and it was a disaster from beginning to end. I said, ‘I know I can do better than that.’ So I did that for the next 40 years, trying to create a piece that wasn’t a disaster.”

Read the full article from the New York Times

“Creative Process in Dialogue: Art and the Public Today” will be held at BHSEC Manhattan on October 31, followed by a lunch hour talk at Bard at Brooklyn Public Library on November 1.

Poet Elizabeth Alexander and Painter Amy Sherald in Conversation

Creative Process in Dialogue: Art and the Public Today with Elizabeth Alexander and Amy Sherald 
Bard High School Early College Manhattan, October 31 at 6:30 p.m.

Lunch Hour Talk with Amy Sherald and Thelma Golden
Bard at Brooklyn Public Library, November 1 at 12:45 p.m.

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Bard High School Early College Manhattan (BHSEC) hosts a discussion with poet Elizabeth Alexander and painter Amy Sherald about their creative processes and their commitments to the humanities. This public conversation seeks to diversify perspectives on the arts disciplines and to offer models for collective and inclusive community dialogues. The event is free and open to the public. It takes place on Wednesday, October 31, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm at BHSEC on 525 East Houston Street in New York City. Preregistration is required. Register here. A live webcast of the event will also be available.

Poet and president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Elizabeth Alexander and painter Amy Sherald have both produced works critical to marking and reflecting on recent periods of political and social change in the United States. Alexander wrote and recited the poem “Praise Song for Our Day” to usher forward the presidency of the first black American president, Barack Obama, and Sherald painted the official portrait of the first lady, Michelle Obama, one of two works to mark the end of the Obama Presidency. Moderators BHSEC literature professor Brittney Edmonds and Bard Associate Professor of History Christian Crouch will ask Alexander and Sherald four contextualizing questions around the process of patronage and collecting in the arts, artistic practice and black feminism, how their work speaks across artistic media, and how their work engages with the image of body.

“This event, the first of a series, is inspired by an ongoing dialogue within Bard’s Africana Studies Program surrounding race and diversity and social engagement in the visual and performative arts. We hope to create the opportunity for public dialogue around creative artistic practice and the humanities, and how artists engage their audience and broader community,” says Director of Africana Studies at Bard and Assistant Professor of Africana and Historical Studies Drew Thompson.

This event is cosponsored by Humanities New York, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard Center for Civic Engagement, Bard Undergraduate Program in Africana Studies, Bard High School Early College, and Bard American Studies Program.

On Thursday, November 1, from 12:45pm to 2:00pm, Amy Sherald will be in conversation with curator Thelma Golden at Bard at Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), the first New York City Microcollege. In this inaugural Bard at BPL Lunch Hour Talk, Golden and Sherald discuss an understated aspect of the creative process: the relationship between curator and artist. Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, has presided over exhibitions in which painter Amy Sherald’s works were included and was involved in the selection of Sherald to paint the portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. The event is free and open to the public. It takes place at BPL Central Library, Dweck Center, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn. Preregistration is required. Register here.
 

Castello di Rivoli Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev has been named the winner of the 2019 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence, which carries a prize of $25,000.

Art icon and powerhouse DJ Huxtable talks about process, representation, internet culture, and the future of nightlife in New York City.

Pioneering jazz composer and pianist Vijay Iyer and Nigerian American writer, photographer, and Bard faculty member Teju Cole present a live collaboration, Blind Spot, on October 26.

In tracing the remarkable work of gallerists Pat Hearn and Colin de Land, the exhibition presents the gallery as a crucial site for the history of art.

Times theater critics Ben Brantley and Jesse Green review Daniel Fish’s “newly energized, gloriously conflicted” revamp of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic.

Bard MFA Music/Sound faculty member Jace Clayton will present his latest video, The Jacob Lawrence of Jacob Lawrence, at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center on October 19.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has named artist Wu Tsang, cochair of Bard MFA’s Film/Video Program, a recipient of a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship.

“The exhibition’s total picture is one of insatiable intellectual and aesthetic curiosity and uncompromising integrity.”

The artist, whose work focuses on “the intervention of human technology into nature, … aims in the current show for an immersive experience evocative of virtual reality.”

OBIE award–winning interactive media artist Andrew Schneider and his collaborators perform NERVOUS/SYSTEM, a Live Arts Bard commission, at the Fisher Center October 12–14.